The results: my new Agaves

A week ago I went to local nursery Greenscape Gardens to buy some kale seed, but instead spent a lot of time looking at Agaves and other succulents. After getting some questions answered here and thinking about it for a week, I went back this weekend and made my choices.

That's not to say that I just walked in, grabbed the plants I had decided upon, and purchased. No, this was a shopping trip that included much more debate, side-by-side comparison, putting plants into the cart then taking them back out again until the final decisions were made. For instance the Agave impressa 'Impressive' above was in the cart for a while then out again before I finally decided upon a smaller specimen.

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I'm still not certain what this Agave is...

Need ID on this Agave please!

...but the more I looked at it the more I liked it. Interestingly, after seeing its clean edges and overall sleek look, the "Impressive" looked a bit gaudy to me -- which is why I removed it from the cart.

Here's what I decided upon (all estimates of the number of plants I'd buy in last post were low!):

I wouldn't have bought so many except that the smaller ones were cheaper. (Using special plant shopping math...) Pretty nice that I could photograph these outdoors, as the temperature was about 70ºF (21ºC)!

Here are photos from the previous post of the individual plants. I managed to find some pots that appeared to have correct labels, but please correct anything that looks amiss (Gerhard!):

Agave 'Blue Flame'

Agave impressa 'Impressive' (I got the small, distressed one)

Agave parrasana 'Globe'

Need ID on this Agave please!

Agave ocahui 'Wavy Gravy'

I also grabbed the wonderfully bumpy Aloe:

Aloe hybrid, exact ID unknown

At first I didn't see it and thought that it had been sold, but later found it as it had been moved to another table. Whew!

I'm not sure that Tagg is happy with the placement of the new plants...

...but they'll be moving outside soon enough. I'll repot the smaller ones when they're ready to go outside, and will probably remove some pups too -- I'll pay a bit more for a plant that is producing offspring already, as many of these are!

Tagg may not like the plants here, but his mom loves to rub her face on the lowermost super-pointy leaf tips. This is the same cat that rubs her face on the Pachypodium lamerei, so who knows what's going on in that little brain...


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